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The Town House

Norah Lofts

Entered Sep 27, 1959 · 6 weeks on the list, last seen Nov 22, 1959

Book Power
16.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
Peak
#11
1 week there · Oct 18, 1959
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on list
6
September 1959 – November 1959

Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.

What it earned each author

Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.

AuthorCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Norah Loftsprimary100%16.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 18, 1959 on the timeline →
  1. #1Advise and ConsentAllen Drury
  2. #2ExodusLeon Uris
  3. #3The CaveRobert Penn Warren
  4. #4Dear and Glorious PhysicianTaylor Caldwell
  5. #5The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
  6. #6Lady Chatterly's LoverD.H. Lawrence
  7. #7EvaMeyer Levin
  8. #8California StreetNiven Busch
  9. #9The Art of Llewellyn JonesPaul Hyde Bonner
  10. #10The Thirteenth ApostleEugene Vale

The #1 bestsellers of 1959

1959 in books →

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 1959.